Today being #TolkienReadingDay, the anniversary of the fall of Sauron, here's #tolkien translating the pirate's parlay from the old English Battle of Maldon:

"Bold seafarers have sent me to you, and have bidden me to say to you: that quickly must you send rings if you would save yourselves; and it is better for you that you should buy off this onslaught with tribute than we should meet in so deadly a battle. We need not destroy one another, if you have means for this we will in exchange for…